Those are the kinds of statements football coach Kip Hafey imagined when he put the Big Blue Football Camp together three years ago.

"We want to inspire young kids," he said. "We also want to teach them life skills like sportsmanship and goal-setting."

More than 40 campers from age 5 to 14 attended the three-day camp this week. It brought many future Bulldogs in touch with the current crop of Big Blue players.

"It's the best when you see the big kids grab an arm of a camper and say, 'Wow, feel that muscle,'" Hafey said. "Then the camper gets a big grin, and you look up at the player, and he has just as much of a grin."

The campers were separated into groups according to their ages, and each group had at least two high school "coaches" with them.